H.Con.Res. 113

Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036.

Sponsor: Jodey C. Arrington · 0 cosponsors

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Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

This concurrent resolution establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2027, sets forth budgetary levels for FY2028-FY2036, and provides reconciliation instructions for legislation that increases the deficit. 

The resolution recommends levels and amounts for FY2027-FY2036 for

  • federal revenues,
  • new budget authority,
  • budget outlays,
  • deficits (on-budget),
  • debt subject to limit,
  • debt held by the public, and
  • the major functional categories of spending.

The resolution includes reconciliation instructions that direct the House Agriculture Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Administration Committee to submit recommendations for legislation that will increase the deficit over FY2027-FY2036 by not more than specified amounts. Each committee must submit the recommendations to the House Budget Committee by September 11, 2026. 

(Under current law, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.)

In addition, the resolution establishes a reserve fund that allows certain adjustments to committee allocations and other budgetary levels to accommodate reconciliation legislation.

Finally, the resolution sets forth budget enforcement procedures that address issues such as

  • adjustments to committee allocations and other budgetary levels;
  • the budgetary treatment of the discretionary administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service;
  • emergency spending; and
  • additional adjustments for disaster relief, wildfire suppression, health care fraud and abuse control, continuing disability reviews and redeterminations, and reemployment services and eligibility assessments.

Text of the bill

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I Recommended Levels and Amounts

II Reconciliation

III Reserve Fund

IV Other Matters

Sec. 406. Emergency requirements Since introduced

(a) In general. If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for discretionary amounts contains a provision providing new budget authority and outlays, and a designation of such provision as an emergency requirement, the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House shall not count the budgetary effects of such provision for any purpose in the House.

(b) Application

(1) Exclusion. A proposal to strike a designation under subsection (a) shall be excluded from an evaluation of budgetary effects for any purpose in the House.

(2) Amendment. An amendment offered under subsection (a) that also proposes to reduce each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by the pending measure that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise made available shall be in order at any point in the reading of the pending measure in the House.

(c) Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) Emergency. The term emergency means a situation that—

(A) requires new budget authority and outlays (or new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom) for the prevention or mitigation of, or response to, loss of life or property, or a threat to national security; and

(B) is unanticipated.

(2) Unanticipated. The term unanticipated means that the underlying situation is—

(A) sudden, which means quickly coming into being or not building up over time;

(B) urgent, which means a pressing and compelling need requiring immediate action;

(C) unforeseen, which means not predicted or anticipated as an emerging need; and

(D) temporary, which means not of a permanent duration.